{"product_id":"oasis-definitely-maybe-by-alex-niven-9781623564230","title":"Oasis' Definitely Maybe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant study of Oasis' debut album, highlighting the band's massive cultural impact and the raw, positive power of those early songs.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e managed to summarise almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquised slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs, and Tony McCarroll. On \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid-1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes \u0026amp; Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340987023596,"sku":"9781623564230","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1147163482766.jpg?v=1772179424","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/oasis-definitely-maybe-by-alex-niven-9781623564230","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}